Bug 1103870 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-11553: exiv2: There is an illegal address access in basicio.cpp of exiv2.

Bug 1103870 - (CVE-2017-11553) VUL-0: CVE-2017-11553: exiv2: There is an illegal address access in basicio.cpp of exiv2.

(CVE-2017-11553)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2017-11553: exiv2: There is an illegal address access in basicio.c...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal
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Assigned To:	Dirk Mueller
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/189024/
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Reported:	2018-08-06 08:54 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified:	2018-08-06 08:56 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Meissner 2018-08-06 08:54:39 UTC

rh#1471772

There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in
localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote denial of
service.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471772
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475368
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-11553
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-11553.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11553

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2018-08-06 08:54:57 UTC

this was already addressed with released updates.